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You have found the perfect font for your new website, congratulations! The font looks great in your design, and you have typed in your code. A few clicks later, the browser opens, and then you find out that it looks blurry, jaggy or just outright terrible. But why? And more importantly, “How can I fix this?”.

I can already see some of you cringe just from the title I’ve written. I might be able to put it better than this but no worries, I expect some heated arguments on how I’m wrong when I decided to write this anyway.

To be clear, I’m not saying that you should always do things wrong the first time nor am I advocating this practice for every possible scenario, there are obviously some cases where you should indeed do things right the first time. But here’s my point (and a little personal story):